The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh held a strong affinity for Japanese artworks and culture. Throughout his career, he collected numerous ukiyo-e prints and literature related to Japan and came to envision the country as a kind of utopia. After his death, Japanese artists and intellectuals expressed equal reverence for Van Gogh, making pilgrimages to Auvers-sur-Oise, the French town where he died, to pay their respects. This exhibition focuses on Van Gogh’s relationship with Japan through a selection of oil paintings and drawings by the internationally celebrated Dutch painter, presented alongside a display of Van Gogh-related works by Osaka-based contemporary artist Morimura Yasumasa in the Collection Gallery.